Treasures of the past: Unterumbach's community house becomes a museum!

The community center in Unterumbach turned into a museum for a weekend that attracted numerous visitors. The local researcher Christa Liebert and Professor Ernst-Michael Hackbarth organized the exhibition entitled "Traces of the People in Pfaffenhofen an der Glonn". This event was particularly important for Liebert because it celebrated her 80th birthday on the day of the opening and led personally through the exhibition.

The finds on display have been compiled for many years with the support of helpers. Liebert had searched for valuable artifacts with the approval of the farmers in fields. The highlights of the exhibition included a baking bone of a urelephant who lived about 16.5 million years ago, as well as an aquamanile from Miesberg, which served as a hand washing vessel for clergymen and knights. Further exhibits included cannon balls, Celtic coins, handmile mills from the younger Stone Age, stove tiles and stone axes. The exhibition dealt with artifacts from the Stone Age to modern times, but without taking the Roman period into account.

archaeological finds in Pfaffenhofen

The results of archaeological excavations were presented on the site of the former Café Herb in Pfaffenhofen. Excavation manager Bernd Kriens from the excavation company ADA informed the Heimat- und Kulturkreis about the important finds. Among other things, post holes were discovered that indicate the fire of 1388, as well as a garbage and smoked pit with traces of fire and bone remains. The other finds included two coins, a rider's spur, an arrow tip and fragments of a nopping cup made of glass, as well as oven tiles from the 14th century.

The finds indicate that the residents of the site must have been wealthy, since there were silver coins and glass. The oldest found coin is a Swabian brighter, a reprint from the 15th century, which comes from Augsburg or Ulm. Due to the fact that Pfaffenhofen was not allowed to shape their own coins before receiving city rights, Swabian Heller were used. The second discovered coin comes from the late Middle Ages, between the 15th and 16th centuries. The arrowhead is also due to a possible military use in connection with the fire of 1388. Other signs show that the houses were not rebuilt for a period of 20 to 50 years.

The property showed several construction phases: first wooden buildings were built, followed by a brick basement under a half -timbered house, and finally a complete brick building. Kriens emphasized the importance of archeology for the identity of a place and regretted the lack of a museum in Pfaffenhofen, in which the valuable finds could be presented. Planned lectures in the next spring of Kriens and Ruth Sandner from the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments should convey further insights into these historical discoveries.